The Sun. — London, England, 1808-02-03 00:00:00

ad. Fo ,lify UDLI. Si iuctt beipg the obstacles to an Invasim: of India, it will naturally be inquired on what grounds the Opposition Papers rest the probability of its success. They have no hesitation in replying, " that the experiment has beeu.frequently made with effea that NADIR SIIAW, GENGIS and AMMAN- Dia the GREAT, haile all conquered the territories ie question ; 'that what has been already' performed cannot Without rashness be pronounced impossible; and that BIIONAPARTE, .so like tlx.ExANDult in his. character andfortune, is not less dating . in his pio jeas, nor less happy than that hero in their exc cution?,. _ • 're- BUONAPARTE like ALEXA N DER ! ! !—SQsay the base and abjea . w retches who cro?da'before him On the Continent ; and so repeat, witii added baeness, malignert of their Country in this Metropolis ! slut where is the resemblance ? ALux ANDea Was a 'Xing born of Kings : 13tIoNAPARTE; bprting from a dunghill, bred in misery, and educated on charity, driven with disgrace from the most 'disgraced spot in Italy, .owes his first distinetiou to osassination, and Lis first elevation to infamy Nor is the a cha raaer "of BtIONAFARTE more ALEX:INIIV,It'S than his birth and ftirt une,--ALEXANOC It :was a' "'adman, if our Readers will have it so ; hut he Was ahigh-souled, generous madman : BUONAvAIiTE, • is a pettyfogger in madness a cool, calculating, malevolent madnian,.whose freaks nauseate they .ternly. ALEXANDER wai'laiisli Of blood; — but what was with hint merely the means is with IitYOOIAPAR7•E the objea and end. The former was I Lion TUartliilg jor prey t o grat ify ids inn:lean:tie . Purrose ; the hater is a Tiger, insatiate of gore, ted seizi4 ; viairn after vitlit», fur the infernal tleaSnre of tearing what he cannot devour. It was tie noble ambition of ALLXANDEtt to raise a pros trate, foe ; it is the mean pride of ....RVOAS'AItTE to t hrow himself upon him, and, with the remorseless r anCour of his countrymen, to stab him with a poi -4°llecl stiletto ! dG 6e D 1 8~, ~, !C I, ,1 A S We proceed we discover contrasts yet more . abominable but we are already sick of the parallel S o impudently forced upon our notice, and gladly r eturn to our subject. When ALcxatsoEa undertook his frantic Expe dition to India, he was sole and undisputed master of the resources of Persia, then a rich and populous exiending to the frontiers of Hindustan. " 4 difficulties, therefore, commenced at !I point which the French can only reach by encountering ut!d overcoming thousands ! After incredible hard 2biPt4, Avethaquan. CrUsses - two of tins :Streams - solidi fall into the Indus, loses vast numbers of his 1119 in a drawn battle witli tc,petty Itajah, an:i is instantly compelled, by want, and the murmurs Of isiollowers, to retrace his steps with all possible eleritY. Out fur the wise precaution of sanding hack a great part of his army by Sea, which, be if t'lnerved, BLIoNAPAR4E eaunot do, it is wore than prbbable that the whole would have peri;il by. tile t way, as their supplies must have failed them: long before they reached. . flatten' aloe, .there f're, can reckon ALexAubsu among _the co:14 luerors of Indb ; a country , Which hersearcely.saw). from which ,he broughtback 4lotbip g. b ut o. . ragge d raquir, ,tmdiry .whiolt, the Dilly traces, of hit meteor ous appearatiee,.vere, a ,few worth of a Greek tea- • gedy, that some of his idle soldiers taught Hindoos. • Thus far - We, have rand :lu:iv-eat enconra,sTethent' . , form Expedition. to`lndia morebe..sought, it will scarcely be atTorded by that of tialgots KUAN. GENG/S riot Only 'possesied 11; . dhavia, (now 'an. arid desert, then a fertile and flourishing. Country,) but all the regions which bound India to the North. Hfg excnrsions, therefore, flit they were nothing more, were made at a less exiience of travel than those of Aop.xANDLe, and, .to all appearance, With. 49 little'real advantage savage 'cavaliy poured in desultory myriads, into the defenc e less villiges, burned what th e y could not •devour, and reiired as rapidly as they had advanced. . . • The invasion of NADIIt Snnw is more to the Purpose, as having iu Some measure succeeded.— tutlslastna had previously employed many,arduous ye ar in subduing .the country which lay between I) ersia and India ; nor was it until he had mastered, .by force or fraud, every strong position on his route, that he finally proceeded against belhi. T'vo days March . froth that city, he was met by the Mogul frees, whieh he defeated, after a long and.obstinate, co .i.avt: but India • was' HO: . more . subdued by) , t hhi bottle than Russia was by that of Fried 141kt. The troo s im, though were un br,ikcn, and still more numerous than their oppor rY'tits ; but there was a traitor in the Mogul's C.:ootieil (the atiLestor• of the, present Nitittn,) who upon his Master's fears (as, other traitors o. have done' in o th e r C ounc il s), persua d es t him to ' ) er,i);tate when' he shnuld have tiaughty and thus 6•we time for \l' o lit to appr,:;cll, : the .e.tart:%! it into an intconclitional 'the volume, A the Arabian Nights have ike,t,l,. ransacked for magnificent descriptions of the trea- SUres- Wained by' the:. plunder of this unfortunate r Mephant loaded with diamonds, and load; • trains - of camels bending under the weight of un counted millions, figure in the pages of modern his tory, and .exasperate . the avarice and bewilder the imagination of the licentious freUbooters of the day. ThatNAmit obtained phindeg beyond the dreaMs of cupidity, can scarcely be doubted: little of it, hoever, reached Persia. He was plundered in i!is turn by petty chieftains,. who way-laid him at every difficUlt pass ; and found, on his arrival at Ispahans, that.his gains scarcely sufficed to pay the expences of n tiVtxpedition 1 Refletlions on barbarities, thus u ...- nprotitlhly exercised, alienated hiireason; he be- Caine savage: from despair, and, after a few mise,- rable Months, .was cut- to pieces in his tent by his most confidential servants We Ipve destroyed the ingenious parallel of the Opposition Writers, -by proving that Buosrie.NliTs -bears -no, kind of resemblance . to ALEXANDkit the GR . EAT; our duty, therefore, to supply them with another, that shall be liable to no possible ob jeCtion. The annals of the world do not furnWr a Single' person. to whom he can with any degree of justice be compared, but Noma SHAW, and here the similarity is complete ! One exception, indeed, oceers, and one alone :—NAntit was once faithfill to his •Prince, w4ereas BUuMAPARTE wal a traitor from the beginning: in every other circumstance, the parAel runs on all-foArs Rude in his language, atlrtipt Ond even violent. in his Manners, (Tatty, "'" I eFnel,aud'unrelenting, subject to fits of ungovern_. paision,. greedy, avaricious,' unsociable, faith iipidtable, bloody and inhunian, there wants nothing but the catastrophe, which,- we are per suaded, he will one day find, to,assiMilate BOON.A; erattT in every respect to his most detestable proto . - type ! It must not be forgotten that all those attempts upon ludic, have been niridety armies with few'in cumbrances. •The Mace4onian soldiers carried their Own' arms, spears and swords; the Tartarian hyrdes were still more lightly equipped ; and even the trfBwi of NADtt SILAW had little to impede: their oarch : a ,few pieces of wretched artillery, not.sul, ticient, at present, fur .a single battalion, Via 4 all that accompanied this immense host. The chief re,iance a the Frenctr soldier is upon his and every cannon, and every shot that is fi re d, mist be drag ge d by main force, a mardi of four thousand miles, - through rivers and iwn::sses, over and mountains, where there is scarcely a trace of liutnan footing to be found. It is not now, as in the diy . %.of SHAW ALIMM ; and our Indian armies are furnished with parks of artillery that would ex admiration in those who 'witnessed the batiles of Aus erlitz and Friedland. • And. what, after all, is tlie obje6t of this dirt...nett ed r ? To drive. us front A.qa ,But we tinLA • lii'>,t'bc. Lirlyen from the sea'i and this is a comm. tenCy Which madness alone , can adopt, and which there/Ore be. foil b Is it y COW AI. Vf i t i3 But ludia is - exhausted ; it is no, longer the Ei l Du'rutto of the old Deini, which ;tallish ed kitS roillious to the fury. ofN.tont:S/I.tw, is now tt:, ittiserablepile of ruins, amongst which it would be dilikult to coiled a few rapt.es ;• while the Alogul, Who once ge:Oitdininonas, and trarupled tipOit gold, is now au- humble dependant upon the bounty of the • Which 'enables hint to retain a few Oiticers With',s9uOchog hihnes, but ,whose appearance would L it - fattly excite the envy, or tempt the cupidity of the rou 4v 6t-European soldier ! armies enter this country, Must be sup.. '!" fn.i thir own funds, or staKve; uor is there; the North of India, a single town that would yield sufficient spoil to pay for, the iowd er that might be.consunted in reducing it. The true riches of India are in kits ,soil and its manufacture's; and 'those can only be gathered by the slow progress Of time, War demo) s them ; and lung years of trait- quit iddustry ark required to repair.th . e. ravages of a single campaign. What, then, aro the l'c9pe4 it the Enemy ? An incursion like- tliat'of NADO.Sui.w is nu longer available : an eitablishment will require many bloody , batrles, and many frein armies, which. it will he impossible to procure, to confirm it. either case, no temptation is held out to the natives to support 'the cause of the invaders : they can have. 14(1 wish to be robbed and murdered by transient yi sitors and it will puzzle better consists than the OPposition possess . ; to . dkcover •,w hat advantage , ' , . ),,pliey. can propose to tnemselOes by exchanging Ihe tilintiont and peaceful prote&iou of England, for thu turbulence, the rapacity, the. wretchedness and the tyranny of France ! Yesterday was married,. lit St, Bride's, Fleet-street, :font,lsom ROCiGkaRSON, Esq. ,of .Livvrpgul, to Alp, I)Avis, of Cecil-greet, Strand. - Several houses in Prince's-street, Prince's •court and Angel-court, We.sttynster, were •on 4.lturditY destroyed by ,a tire, wos discovered in a de serted 'house, and under suspicious eiretunstanec‘;.. Ait old , woman had her kg broken by th: falling u : the ruins, bur we have not beer 4 of : u Alvtie b t big lust. NAVAL r.l E ‘S,, Pr. YMQUI FEB: 1 .—S.tiled- the Frigitd with several Transports under convoy, liablog on board the 13th Regiment of Foot, for Pottsmoath, to join the Expta;iition under Om- c9tutitand of Sir GEORGE PREVOS r. • Arrived' the 'mogul, of so guns, from the Chin - net. Fleet. . Sailed the Pickle Schooner with a Fleet of Met.- chantmen under convoy for the Downs, amongst which are several detained Danish Vessels bound for the River, PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 2. 7 —Arrived His Majesty's Ships. Pet/do-Pe, with a Beet et' Transports from Plyruciutp ; -Gmhatek,: pap-per; and fiearill, from the Wegtward. Alio ~ t ho C/ytii, Capt. .3.Acxsort,' from Halifax, which place she left on the,* 7rly of January. ilk MitiestY's Ship Leopdhi Ii d soiled for Bermuda. SAO His M.ijesty's Ships, Oftichester and Spright ly to the Westward. SHP EUNESS, rEB: 4.gineourt, of-134guns,, late from clic Cape of Good - Hope, is 'gone up to Chatham. This day a Court Martial was held un board the Magnanime, in SheartiesA Harbour, tor the trial - of a Seaman belonging to the .I:Gchestr I)rison-ship at Chatham, for desertion, when the chaig'ei being pr o v e d, he was sentenced to receive 5U laihei on .board his own Ship. Also a man belonging to His Mnjesty's Ship no seug, for deF.crtion, to receive 200 Illsbes. FEU. 2.—Arrived the Wootteirh Store-ship from the Cape, and Tuf !..tzlent Gun-brig, Lieut. Ksonbs, from . 13rightlingsea. • Sailed the Orion; of- 74 St ins, Sir A. Dtexsox, for Portsmouth. .The Gan brio, Lient. TUCKER, has been onshore near Dieppe, but got otf again without (lamage. Every prepal•ation.was made to give the Emmy A warm: reception inocase they had annoyed them during their cr,tical' situation: GENERAL IPIIITELOCKE's TflL 11,. rip DAY. . Tu Court aigembLci . thi morning at the'usual hour, - and after h hipie of -a few ininuteS General WILITELOCI4.P. entered the Court,- attended by his Friends and ConniA. • General GowEit'S Evidcitce having cou yeiterday ,about two o'chiek, LeuteuAta- Colone..l Bt.•arot, QUarter-MlsterGetter.:l in the F:xpedition, teas examined, until . ti.., t :,)urt brae up ; and after the sub,tatice of the Chirges General. Wait ELOCK.c had been. read the'J ndge- Advocate this Morning . , his e itienxe'veiii resumed. Lieutenant-Colonel Buttga - enter,ed into' a very long. and :Ai' mite detail of the operations of the artily from its embarltatiOn; narratin; the particulars of the nrratvgetuents. Made by Gener,d WiIITRIOCKC, the nnixiber of tlie forCe,, .route, positions - occupied, Ste. availing hirnsellot notes which he held in his ham'. He kick not concluded hiA'very interesting evidence when our express left the Court. The Court- vas attire crowded thii day than any day . y.et, and the dobrs . were thrown open to the Public heThre th;,,, arrival of, General I``iiil•ELoc44., which prevented tnuch , coutuiion. • , A - Court of Ardertnen was held yesterday at Guild hall. , The c'ourt was attended by the Master and Wardens of the Baktzs' CoMFany ; and after hear ing them; and inspeaing the tnealiveighers' returns of the average pi ices of _wheat and flour for the last aie,:.;ted tall a.lea k lee of half an essize in the peekh i 4 - which will take phiee to-Morrow, %Olen thtt price Or tllc quartera loaf, wheaten,.xill be t lid, and household, 011.—Theriday the 3d of March was ilopoint,t4 for licensing the seieral ViCluallers throughout rite A .Let ter troni Valtriouth state 3,. that dispatches, supposed to he olgreat const:Npieni . :6, were found on Frid . ay.last, itl po4ser;sion of a pas.s.inger (a French.' .\ man) on board an Aineriean Se4ooner lying ih that harbour, .t.tlt'in by the•llars Privateer, nomad from Botird'eactx to New-York. The dispatehes are frOtu the French Ministry, f% . ,n . Martinique and Gna deloupe, and were - 4teoyered in the hold of the.. ship, in a large trunk, just m .the Main hatchway,. through the information of ono of the'erew. Mrs. a Jot wsToN last night !Wade her appear ance again Jr Covent garden Theatre, in the part ot . rir;iitia. She did not experience the least hostility, and therefore it is probable that the good seti'e oi .the public will permit her theatric,d powers to 11,110 their due operation, without sated tap; her to ho ail, noyed,in future opt; matters of a IA1 , 011:11 mr, , Warills, a Gentleman wlu.t resides in Jernl).n -'street, ran'two milei in nine inintitei yesterday, at Llington. He was allowed two start, mid be won the match by abtait :thr‘4l or loar seconds, 'Tau wager was - ';!5 guineas. Major hoatt, boa of Mr. Pm :min, late 'llt bar, for was' yesterday returned for that without oppOsition.. Aijor VA I„Mr,it is a Gentlew:nt of very pronmAng abilities, and tar the in, ;it etlinable. • eharaaer inxwate.ltie. „ (hi Sam last, - lhornes . . the g• kratd, Mid \VI% l'Or.baor p \‘ ere pillored r.t i Coueeton i in Cheshire, porptuant to thoh ti,ltt last Quarter Scssions; • .;Bury Lawton, a passenger ill the 114il coach, on the e...en ing Ut Ole 27th tit A01 . .4 . 1rit last. , , • 1 ;016' 4 :-FxCHANCi ts. iFri. ;J.—There are 10..da httt - short 'supplied of Wheat and tiartcy, for. which last prices :ate I . olly Stipported Malt ;:kewitiel White Pease. and Beans of ow kind this wee: are clv.'arer ; the Supply of Oats is also short, ant! tine saniples' rather 'dearer ; Flour as our last, tine Ann- . rican is hii.rher 406. 10,444. per barrel. •-• A :Word to the Wi3e is seti.icieut,--,Shares. of Tickets, Sixteen 'Shilhegs a Ticket Cheaper than'at other Oakei, at J. WAlttikiit'3, No. in, Cornbill, who'rec:iirinnetnis ars immediate purchase, ttlyhe Pe4'.bi -Shares will rise. The Lottery Scheme is doutdy stole ( ' v,ith Cape: s, cnmpared with former Lotteries, all ef which b il at J. WAtomes, ~s ell b.. , paid ate demand 05100 v «) drawn. PROM 71114 riIENC.i• L..115.7.:F;5. ' tizllc,tt ire r~rre GOPENIIAGtN, JAN. 9.7 -2 1 Ito 'l)oiuience'ist ille gr,'llWiejtoportnet. it coal- InellCeS after the taking a *Copenhagen ; spew what means the English resort to, in order to attain their ends. No. I.—Extraa of a neport from Mt. RI ,T, for merly Cli.trge 'cr.Aittires from Denmark to the English . Court, to the Minister of State, Count DERNStORIT. London, Sept. 27, ISo7. It was probably to give more weight to those eon.; siderations which Mr. CANNING proposed to me, by reading to me his first minute of the propOsitions of the Court of London, that' he thought it right to add to it a brief exposition of the consequences which the refusal 'on our pati'to,4reat would be attended with. He then read 'to rtiW the following five me- naCes which it contained Ist. The Confiscation of Ali the Vetkies already detained and yet to be detained, The Capture eitotsr Colonies. • 3d., ihe Destrudtion of our Trade. • . 4th. The possibility of being obliged to introduce Swedish Troops into Copenhagen. sth. The necessity, whlch might arise, of rewarding and indemnifying his Swedish Majesty with the possession of Norway. • Alr..CAmNa judged it fit to leave out Neese menaces in the Copy of the verbal Note which he sent me. No. 11.--Extrna of s licport from the same to the sawc. London, oa. 2, ay. I thought Mr. Mvntav had taken his departure 'when he called on me yesterday, and told me that intelligence received by Government had retarded his departure, and Mr. CA NN /N Wiziht•ii tee secs Me ' ono more before,he dispatched him.--I waited accorditsg lv on the Minister, accompanied by Mr. MmtnY. lee objet of the interview gray to acquaint me, that a INles.ieng-,er arrived thil morning who had brought the confirmation of the disposition of his Swedish Majesty to co 7 operato with, his Britannic Ma jesty for the coital: ion interest, in case that his aSsiSIMICC should be want.-d ; in other word„ that Swedish troops wore ready to relieve those of the English Government in Zealand, if the latter were .obliged, on account of the capindation, and another destination, to evacuate that Itiato. Mr. CANNING' concluded by prop;hing to me to avail myself of the departure ut Mr. Memo: to press in Court to ac, ceclviu an arrangement, the refwAl c>t which would unavoidably 4e followed by the S wedish co-operation, and to represent to my Court the urgnt necessity of conling speedily to sonic preliminary accommoda tion: No. 111.—Letter horn Coont liNSTOßrEu Danish for foreign AtElir, to Baron Wi.:TTER+ snor, First Secretary of the Cabinet of his nliesty. Kid, Ott. r 7,. 437. Portnit me, Sir; to ripply direa to you, to require of you o:licially an esplanation which it is important for my Court to obtain in an authentic manner. The English Government has thought proper to make a preposition tc) my Conn, founded in part on the Alfreat of neo-operation of Sweden in the ta),:tile tEle.4l sures of Great Britain against Ds:Jnin*. 'The Cabi net of London dare to assert, that his Swedish Ma- jesty has offered to cause the Engiisll troOliS in Zea land to be replaced by part of fiis own troops, in ease 'that the former should be obliged to evacuate that Wand.' Tim loyalty of the Sovereign, whose inten tions it is tins . 3tttaupted to !alutnoiat , ..., and the nature of the rdation which • suhiists between D.:now!: and eden, sufficiently prove the falsity of that, iu4i.tieas sissertion. But we sliwild feel great sitistaction to be antliorized by his Sxedisla Majesty himself, ti fuiswer, by a formal denial, an in.:inn:l6 , n more injurious to him than it is to ns, This, Sir., is the only motive which induces me to ciniltici of y'ou a .frattic and prisitive explAna tion on thk . subjeCt. ,leave to request you will. send it me by the beari.;;;:l n( t , l y l i i i 3 i I foLs-rEtti, Lieutenant of hapa in baying au opportunity. of recalling myself to your reeollection; and of gal:ring you the assur ance of my high consideration. • IV.—Aniwer ham Baton WETTLHTLEYri niter at' •Itldinghorg„ Oct 27. iBa7. I had this afternoon the hhtuittr to receive, through. Lieutenant Hot.svusr, the letter Ex-• • celleney has addreg k eck_to we, dated the t 7th Oa°. htr. As the dutto:4llmy.pl „ ce do nut allow tut., to deviate from tha regul:n inni,to of irftliGial etiihnitml r,ition between, Om t„ 0 (.:(aurts t .yotirtv4elivocy p..:ratit melt) restrict entirely to aeknow,ledge the receipt of your ter,. and to ex; refs 10 y bltYi 'WA.; I feet in having the opportunity Or Vollew , .. ing to YOU the &own:mice of the high 1, - .ol.„i,tviaccup with which have the, honour to be, &c, • No. V,--Note addresied by the Nlipiiter o f .S ta t e Cotmt ~listtigtniontAr to haroh rAtlair:s oi,his ;wediutt Majextyii, t£o7 . •r:, cppv will in forrii Baron T L.l (1t): ) , . 4.ll):Mlltl:iii * .altin . of t:.tte t:lr!u, , ,iat it ril.T.,ht to achhe,-; to Baron \V 1,1-I*.Ett,3TSDIs, Vir4l Lt . the C.thinet of his S . edisit ti( latttir hoviv,j t:ie tut Ale clianamicAtion hick, 1.1e.,!14- ::„:10.e of the Swedish h t ,-Ilo,ts• , ;y, the ioterroption to.. ow direi;l: correvondetive with Sto,:.latattn, ap., to liter ifotlersigned the only way, and at the into.. fur,: the ,;peediest and ,tuost authenticemode Claly remaini to retjoe , ot Earkr).7l:Autip: the; goodness• !Al express- Co C.ottri tbe.wisit entertained in the al:idresiNt t i K; a tbre s ahl material importance !or the Danish Govorpment to be enabled:to refute, authentic manner, an iniillions charge, clearly intended to coutprorni,so a Sovereign, whosiloyalty is above all suspicion, ,to tualco lion share",in the, odium attaeltes to a "conclut'A equally atro cious ancl.perOdinu t s, .in to produce a nlisuncler mon:ling between Sweden and 15,-.timark. be I,, 7 ndersignett rcqtlest4 Baroll:rA VISE to accept the assurance of hi.i high consideration.. addrossed by BarauTAunn to Count . • BEnscroftvw, Minister of State. Ki.l, Nov. 5, 1307. The Undersigned SweLli,h ChArge d'Athires just roceived the Now with witiobA his Ex.ceil..n...y